American surfer Jim Elliot throws his crutches back onto the beach while a friend holds his surfboard, San Onofre, California, July 1950. Elliot has a plastic bags tied around his cast so he can still surf.

American surfer Jim Elliot throws his crutches back onto the beach while a friend holds his surfboard, San Onofre, California, July 1950. Elliot has a plastic bags tied around his cast so he can still surf.

Photo: Loomis Dean, File

American surfer Jim Elliot throws his crutches back onto the beach... Photo-4450335.60125 - Times Union

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American surfer Jim Elliot uses crutches to walk out to the water as a friend holds his surfboard on the beach, San Onofre, California, July 1950. Elliot has a plastic bags tied around his cast so he can still surf. less

American surfer Jim Elliot uses crutches to walk out to the water as a friend holds his surfboard on the beach, San Onofre, California, July 1950. Elliot has a plastic bags tied around his cast so he can still ... more

Photo: Loomis Dean, File

American surfer Jim Elliot uses crutches to walk out to the water... Photo-4450334.60125 - Times Union

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An unidentified surfer plays a ukulele and wears a large straw hat as he stands nears parked cars where another surfer readies several surfboards on the beach, San Onofre, California, July 1950.

An unidentified surfer plays a ukulele and wears a large straw hat as he stands nears parked cars where another surfer readies several surfboards on the beach, San Onofre, California, July 1950.

Photo: Loomis Dean, File

An unidentified surfer plays a ukulele and wears a large straw hat... Photo-4450333.60125 - Times Union

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American surfer Bob "Hammerhead" Gravage pours beer from the keg in his car at the beach, San Onofre, California, July 1950.

American surfer Bob "Hammerhead" Gravage pours beer from the keg in his car at the beach, San Onofre, California, July 1950.